Animal Pen
Animal Pen is a block that stores up to 64 animals of one type, so a player can keep livestock in a single compact spot instead of a large fenced pasture.
What it does
Animal Pen lets a player capture an animal, store it in one block, and manage it there. The Animal Wrangler, a portable item crafted from sticks and leads, is used to capture an animal by right-clicking it, and the captured animal can then be placed into a pen. The pen keeps the stored animals inside, renders them, and shows how many are held and their current health.
Inside the pen, animals can be fed and bred, and their breeding timers are handled automatically. Penned animals can also be attacked to collect the loot they drop, such as leather and meat. Animals can be taken back out and released into the world when the player wants them there again.
The mod requires Fabric API on Fabric. Animal Pen is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, with builds covering 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 and 0.3.0 as the latest file for each loader, under All rights reserved.
Key features
Animal capture
A right-click with the Animal Wrangler captures an animal, which can then be deposited in a pen.
Compact storage
One pen block holds up to 64 animals, reducing the space needed for a farm.
Automated breeding
Animals inside the pen can be fed and bred without the player managing each one.
Loot collection
Penned animals can be attacked to collect the drops they leave behind, such as leather and meat.
Visible animals and counts
Animals are rendered inside the pen, and the block shows how many are stored along with their health.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want efficient animal farming without sprawling fences, and builders who want livestock to fit a tidy design. Server owners can run it for players who move farms often.
Questions
Does Animal Pen need Fabric API?
Does the server need Animal Pen?
Which loader should a server owner choose for Animal Pen?
In the catalog
Animal Pen is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Tired of massive animal farms cluttering your world? Want to transport livestock without herding them for miles? Animal Pen lets you capture, store, and manage animals in a single compact block. Stop building enormous fenced pastures just to keep a few cows. With Animal Pen, you can store up to 64 animals in one…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/animalpen
- Owner
- Relatively Boring
- Published
- 2025-12-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15